White nose fungus in bats

The devastating white nose fungal syndrome in North American bats appears not to have spread over the Atlantic to the UK as yet...comparisons have been raised to colony collapse disorder in honey bees and chytridiomycosis, a fungal skin disease linked to worldwide decline in amphibian populations. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/28/bats-fungus-epidemic-white-nose

http://www.fws.gov/whitenosesyndrome/

Here's an article on the National Wildlife Federation blog entitled "Five mass wildlife deaths to really be worried about": http://blog.nwf.org/2011/01/5-mass-wildlife-deaths-to-really-be-worried-about/

Photo white-nose bats@http://journeys4good.com/